Comments on: Mary Kinzie's "Theine"http://knopfdoubleday.com/2012/04/18/mary-kinzie-theine/
The Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupTue, 05 Aug 2014 19:33:58 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1By: Michael Sollarshttp://knopfdoubleday.com/2012/04/18/mary-kinzie-theine/#comment-8377
Michael SollarsThu, 19 Apr 2012 21:30:06 +0000http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=23207#comment-8377I enjoyed the lyrical sound of this short poetic pitch. Poems that leave thoughts and questions unanswered are most favored, at least in my mind. We are then able to drift along windward until a tree branch snatches us.
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LKMarshallThu, 19 Apr 2012 14:59:49 +0000http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=23207#comment-8376If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it.” Emily Dickinson
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Leo ThibaultThu, 19 Apr 2012 13:40:45 +0000http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=23207#comment-8375Now, THIS is poetry, stuff that blows the top of your head off, as Emily D. noted. I’ve been criticial of your prose choices, but congratulations on this one….
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BJWWed, 18 Apr 2012 23:01:31 +0000http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=23207#comment-8374Is “to give it up” and idiomatic way of saying “die” and is “thee-en” a pun for “the end” and the cinder our final ashes or spark from our funeral pyre?
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LKMarshallWed, 18 Apr 2012 17:50:15 +0000http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=23207#comment-8373Questions about this poem: What is the “it” in the second line? The “theine” of the title? Theine: the caffeine in tea? And the “line loose on the water”? What is that? The “thread of thought blown out beyond itself” like the string on a teabag? Or a fishing line out over the water with no real need for fish? Is the “it” language or inspiration? And the cinder? A spark of thought, perhaps, or what’s left of the spark (the thought, the words, the inspiration).

I don’t need to know the answers to these questions really. The poem is lovely. My thoughts about it are like tea coloring hot water and warming me.

I will look for more of this poet’s work. Thanks for today’s poem for National Poetry Month.

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EllyWed, 18 Apr 2012 11:48:47 +0000http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=23207#comment-8372I just googled and discovered that “theine” is the caffeine found in tea. I love the mystery that the title plus “leaves” adds to this poem.
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